Forty years before Luca Guadagnino’s ‘Bones and All,’ Paul Bartel’s offbeat black comedy featured a couple dead set on realizing their dream of opening a restaurant.
After studying film and theater at UCLA, Bartel got his start in Hollywood working for Roger Corman’s New World Pictures. Corman paid Bartel $5,000 to direct 1975’s“In the winter of 1979, having worked on several projects that failed to reach the screen, I was fed up,” Bartel once said. “I wanted to do something personal and outrageous; a ‘fun’ picture that could be made quickly, easily and cheaply and that would give me an opportunity to work with a bunch of my friends.
In 1982, he co-wrote a script about a murderous couple with fellow UCLA grad Richard Blackburn. Corman was reluctant to finance the film, so Bartel turned to his parents, who lent him $300,000. He cast himself as the lead, Paul Bland, and his frequent collaborator Mary Woronov — one of Andy Warhol’s superstars — as his wife, Mary Bland. The couple are prudish food snobs who live in an L.A.
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